03000nam a2200397 i 4500 45860 BD-DhAAL 20260726091821.0 260609t2020 maua b 001 0 eng 2020014679 9780674737617 21615260 MH/DLC eng rda DLC DLC BD-DhAAL pcc e------ n-us--- u-at--- a------ a-ja--- D805.J3 K68 2020 940.547252 23 Kovner, Sarah (Sarah C.), 1973- author. 61195 Prisoners of the empire : inside Japanese POW camps / Sarah Kovner. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: A history both familiar and strange -- From avatar of modernization to outlaw nation -- Singapore: a world gone topsy turvy -- The Philippines: commonwealth of hell -- A war of words -- Korea: life and death in a model camp -- Captivity on the home front -- Endings and beginnings -- Undue process -- Prisoners of history: renegotiating the Geneva Conventions in the wake of war -- Conclusion: Never again, and again. "In just five months, from the airstrikes on Pearl Harbor to the fall of Corregidor, the Empire of Japan took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. In the ensuing chaos, all of them had to find a way to live -- or die -- in hundreds of camps spread across thousands of miles, from Manchuria to Manila, from Singapore to Nagasaki. Forty percent of American servicemen did not survive, and more Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Based on archives and interviews in eight countries and five languages, Prisoners of the Empire shows not just how POWs survived, but why they had to endure such a terrible ordeal"-- AAL Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 45860 World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 61196 Prisoners of war Europe. 61197 Prisoners of war United States. 61198 Prisoners of war Australia. 61199 Prisoners of war Asia. 61200 Japan History 1926-1945. 57352 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 48074 48074 0 0 ddc 0 940_547252000000000_KOV 0 79314 BRACUL BRACUL 2026-06-09 Donated by Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation. 0 940.547252 KOV 3010045860 2026-06-09 1 2026-06-09 BK Donated copy received from Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh, Read Japan Project 2025, The Tokyo Foundation, supported by The Nippon Foundation on 08 April 2026; $ 37.00 Amazon.com